Here is my review. This is only Thirdfloorgamers.com 2nd review I hope you guys enjoy it. We would love your feedback. Thirdfloorgamers is the name of my club at school where I run a historical game club. Thanks for watching.

The game is short about 45 min.
The game is a lot of fun.
The game cost is low: $27.
Game strategy is high and very good for a school game club.

All and all a great quick game. This will get people to come over and check out what you are doing.

I give it:


This is a new video. I made some edits and took out the base in the intro music per someones suggestion.

Thanks for the review! The pacing of the video was a little slow, but you covered the topic nicely.

What video editing software do you use? I'm toying with possibly doing some video reviews of my own, but I don't even have a clue where to start looking. Obviously, since I don't plan on making any money off the reviews, I'd like open source software, but I'm willing to pay a little bit (less than $100) to get higher quality editing software if needed.

Well, it took me 24 mins 12 secs to load the video !

Not bad review, but please next review = quicker loading video

Regards.

The tl;dr of the video review: ts;ddl (too slow; didn't download).

I went to the website and had no issues.

I am sorry you guys are having a hard time. The video is only 100mb. with most connections that should not take to long to download. Plus with vimeo it should stream it. Again though I am sorry. I am not sure what size I should export it. I took the high speed internet option on my software when I had to select a file size.


Thanks for those who told me what they think of the video. I must say it is not easy to do these. Don't get me wrong but it is a lot of editing and you must spend a lot of time thinking about how to lay it out so that the editing will work right.

Thanks for your thoughts and comments. Keep them coming. This is a wonderful game.

That bass line in the music has got to go, IMO. Annoying.

I will try again from home, but I was having an issue at my office (which has plenty of bandwidth). It could be that wherever you're hosting the video doesn't have the pipes to get the video out during peak demand. If you're planning on doing a lot of videos, a good hosting service is important.

Poor Carpe, look at what the music has done to his eyes

I,too, get annoyed with music on game review videos

Ouch!

When I asked for some feedback I thought I might get some nice ones too. I guess you guys did not like my second videocast. Maybe I am not cutout for this kind of thing. Well I enjoyed making it and I guess you don't have to watch it if you don't want too.


Take care

I thought it was pretty good for just starting out. I like reviews that explain how the game works in detail. Just tighten things up a bit, and you'll be set! BTW - I'm glad your group enjoys the game!

Darth Boots,

Thanks for the comments. I use a software called finalcut express on the mac. You could use iMovie if you wish. You can do this pretty cheaply. However once you get started it can get very expensive. I have bought a bunch of things to make recordings I do at school better. I have bought wireless mic system. I have bought a new video camera with a mic in line. You can see how this just can get out of hand.

Next from what I see from the comments below, I would practice and write out what you would like to say first. I seems people only want perfect or nothing at all.

hope this helps.

Yeah, I've been looking into doing a video review or two, and it's not so much that people want "perfect or nothing at all", it's just that the bar has been set pretty high by other vloggers so you need to know what you're going to say and edit the video any time you have pauses or (my problem) fidgeting, or "um". Also, you can cut through some things that you might otherwise have to talk through (such as unpacking the box) to get to the interesting bits. There are a lot of public speaking principles you can apply.

That said, since you have a high school club, it might actually be fun, instructional and useful to involve the kids with the vlogs: have them help craft the script, set up the shot, help edit, demo the game with you, etc. Getting them (and yourself) more experience with public speaking and concise information-presentation would probably help them a lot as they grow.

well i'd just like to say thanks i appreciate anyone taking the time and effort to make a video review and i like you have your own style.

i'm finding i much prefer video reviews to written ones so am keen to see as many as possible so please do more!

i think any 'tightening up' will come with practise and it was a very informative review of what looks to be an interesting game.

but i would agree with one comment above - keep the guitar but lose the bass

cheers

I was disappointed that I couldn't find your other review you did, does it exist?

The other video is posted in a different spot due to the fact we were not Thirdfloorgamers yet.

Here is the link to the other video:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/376655

My students love this game.

I'm hoping to get this to the table soon. I really wish it supported 5 though, as it's rare that we have only 4 players.

I would agree. I don't think it would have changed much if they would have added a fifth. But it is still a great game. It is also a really good one for a school Game club. This makes students think about both short term and long term strategies. Thanks for watching the video.

I put up a new file due to some comments here. I edited out two mistakes I made and I changed to music and took the base out per someones suggestion.

I hope this helps a bit.

Take care,

Mr. Matera

I dunno about more than four: with a fifth you'd almost HAVE to use the "take back lost/tied bids" variant because so much of the game would BE losses and ties and the game would bog something fierce. I think that would be a huge change to the way the game works, but I suppose it'd work out in the end...